Fish Lesson Plans

This lesson has students read a book.  In this reading comprehension lesson, students answer pre reading questions about the sea and fish, read the story Little Blue Fish, and answer comprehension questions.

This lesson has students complete activities with the story Ten Little Fish.  In this counting lesson, students listen to the story and practice counting to ten.  They create their own book using iPhoto to show different number objects.   

Learners work together to build their own fish ecosystems. As a class, they share their prior knowledge about catfish and use a diagram to lable its body parts. They record their observations of the ecosystem and determine what they could have done better if they had to do it over again.

Students study number recognition. In this number recognition lesson, students create fish for a pond. Each fish has a number displayed on it and students must "fish" the number from the pond while reading the number aloud.

In this lesson students explore a variety of basic fish body form and their functions. They differentiate between different species of fish found in the Chesapeake Bay and St. Mary's River. In addition, they match pictures with descriptions using anatomical terminology assessed during the dissection process.

Learners, after taking a "fish quiz" in class, assess the different parts of a fish and their purposes. They dissect two yellow perch fish in class. In addition, they discuss the different parts of the fish as they dissect their organs.

Students read the story Fish is Fish, answer short answer questions, and write about if they would rather be a fish or a frog. In this Fish is Fish lesson plan, students also write about being sad and getting cheered up.

Students complete a variety of activities as they examine the ethics of acquiring and distributing fish as a food source. They touch on the ethics involved in genetically modified salmon, as well.

students explore the important scientific concepts, as well as other important topics surrounding fish morphology, their defense strategies, general fish characteristics, and their ecosystems.

Students in this activity act as fishermen and women who need to share an ocean of fish and take in a catch. Groups soon realize that if they don't set fishing limits and monitor the fish population, soon there are no fish left in the ocean. They also define population and graph changes in population over time. Finally, students identify common natural resources that humas impact.